WWE WrestleMania 32: Booking Decisions That Must Be Made at PPV

WrestleMania is the biggest, most important pay-per-view on the WWE schedule, and as such, fans express great interest in every aspect of the event.

Perhaps none are more important than the booking decisions that lead to the biggest matches and outcomes of the show.

The company is in a strange place this year, pushing a lead babyface fans clearly want no part of while teasing them with the rises of Bray Wyatt and Dean Ambrose at the same time. Couple that with the return of Shane McMahon, the return of The Undertaker and the promise of some sort of appearance by The Rock, and you have a show that has the potential to be one of the most significant turning points in WWE since WrestleMania 13 in 1997.

How can the company overcome years of subpar booking to create some momentum beginning on April 3 in Dallas at The Showcase of the Immortals? 

These are the booking decisions that must be made at the enormous pay-per-view.

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Rethink the Main Event

Roman Reigns has done absolutely nothing wrong on his journey to WrestleMania 32 and the WWE World Heavyweight Championship match. He has worked hard and proved to be the media personality the company is looking for in its next big main event attraction. But he is not connecting with fans for a variety of reasons.

The grand push is not working, and rather than throwing Reigns out in front of 100,000 fans to suffer their jeers, the company needs to rethink the main event it currently has scheduled.

Its push of Dean Ambrose has worked tremendously, with fans eager to support the consummate underdog and his never-say-die attitude. The face-to-face confrontation between Bray Wyatt and Triple H even netted a tremendous response on Monday's Raw. And then there is Brock Lesnar, a no-nonsense ass-kicker who will always have fans eager to see him smash a fool or two.

In what should be the biggest WrestleMania of all time, at least from an attendance standpoint, the company should admit its mistake and alter its plans to provide a much more satisfying main event.

The biggest show on the calendar? How about the biggest main event ever, a Fatal 5-Way for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship involving all of the aforementioned Superstars?

With so many potential outcomes, the contest would keep fans invested and intrigued while keeping those who did not want to watch Reigns power through Triple H in the biggest foregone conclusion in 'Mania history happy.

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Sami Zayn vs. Kevin Owens for the WWE Intercontinental Championship

WrestleMania is supposed to be the culmination of a year's worth of storylines. No feud has a stronger and more personal edge to it than that of Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens.

From former friends to bitter rivals, one's obsession with championship gold and the riches that come along with it led to the demise of a decade of support and mutual respect.

Owens ruined the greatest moment of Zayn's life, attacking him after a grand NXT Championship victory, then taking the title from him two months later via referee stoppage. The issues between them were never settled as Owens made his main-roster debut and Zayn was sidelined by injury.

At the 2016 Royal Rumble, Zayn attacked and eliminated Owens from the titular match, then made his return to Raw this past Monday on Raw and reignited the feud.

The company has the opportunity to use WrestleMania for what it is intended: as the setting for the blow-off of a yearlong program. Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan wrapped up their epic "Mega Powers explode" story in 1989 at the fifth incarnation of the event, and Steve Austin's war with Vince McMahon throughout 1998 culminated with a WWE title win at the 15th show.

WWE Creative must resist the urge to book one of the tired multi-man matches that have dominated WrestleMania for years now and go instead with a singles bout for the Intercontinental Championship. Let Owens and Zayn bring their heated rivalry to a conclusion in the most fitting way imaginable, not while navigating a ring filled with midcard guys no one realistically thinks have any chance of leaving with the title.

There is money to be made from a feud between Owens and Zayn, and it is time for Vince McMahon and Company to realize it.

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Get the Tag Team Championships onto the Main Show

The last two years have seen the WWE Tag Team Championships relegated to the Kickoff Show, with apparently no room on the main broadcast for them. With such incredibly over titleholders like The New Day and high-profile challengers like The League of Nations awaiting them, there is no excuse for WWE Creative not to have the titles defended between the hours of 7 and 11 p.m. on April 3.

From the most hated act of last year's WrestleMania broadcast to the most consistently over in all of WWE, New Day has earned the opportunity to perform on the grandest stage imaginable. The heels have overcome every obstacle the gimmick has thrown at them and made it their own, in all of its ridiculousness.

Then there are Sheamus, Rusev, King Barrett and Alberto Del Rio, all of whom belong on the card. Booting them off for no reason other than to give Shane McMahon and The Undertaker 30 minutes of airtime would be a tragic turn of events.

The potential is there to reinvigorate a tag division that has become stale. Should WWE take the opportunity, it will only strengthen its own roster in the process.

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Give the Divas Time

Fans of NXT have witnessed some of the best women's wrestling of all time courtesy of Charlotte, Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks.

Those women were given the opportunity by Triple H to prove they could work matches as good, if not better, than their male counterparts. More importantly, they were given time to do so, no longer forced to rush through matches in which botched spots were plentiful.

With a huge Triple Threat match between those three former NXT stars slated for April 3, WWE Creative owes it to them to give the time necessary to deliver the match that truly serves as the emphasis for the Divas Revolution. 

They can perform up to the moment. They have done it countless times before. This will be their biggest test, and asking them to work their match in anything under 10 or 15 minutes would be robbing them, and fans, or a special match. 

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The Result?

The above booking decisions would allow WWE to strengthen its roster from top to bottom. Putting emphasis on every level, from the main event through the midcard and onto the tag division and the women, would help fans to understand that every Superstar on the card is important, not just those in marquee positions.

For too long, fans have been trained to believe that nothing outside of the top Superstars and rivalries is important. To strengthen the product and make Monday Night Raw and SmackDown destination viewing again, fans must believe that everything they witness on the show is of some significance.

That can be accomplished if WWE itself believes it.

Practice what you preach, Vince McMahon, and the interest in the show will increase exponentially.